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Monthly Archives: April 2010

GOLDMAN SACHS GETS GUILTY UNTIL INNOCENT TREATMENT

Posted: April 20, 2010 at 5:04 am

Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) may have done several terrible things including an alleged sale of mortgage-backed securities to financial firm ACA. Goldman may have allowed Paulson & Co. to determine the ...
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Media Digest (4/20/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 20, 2010 at 3:54 am

Reuters:   Google Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GOOG) password operation was hit by cyberattacks. Reuters:   A leading political party in Germany is urging that the nation not deal with Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: ...
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Wal-Mart Top Management Made $65 Million As Shares Faltered

Posted: April 19, 2010 at 6:10 pm

The top five officers at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc (NYSE: WMT) made $65 million in aggregate in the company's fiscal year ending January 31. Shareholders did not do quite as well. Wal-Mart shares ...
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Iran Sanctions Fail To Hurt Nation’s Oil Opportunities

Posted: April 19, 2010 at 5:09 pm

There have been recent reports that demand for Iranian crude oil is faltering and that the country has begun filling VLCC tankers and having them sail around in circles on the ...
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Goldman Sachs: SEC Commissioners Often Vote 3-2 Along Party Lines

Posted: April 19, 2010 at 4:40 pm

A look at important issues that have come before the Securities Exchange Commission in the last year indicate that the agency is heavily politicized. Republican Commissioners Kathleen Casey and Troy Paredes voted ...
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IBM Backlog Presides Over Earnings & Guidance (IBM)

Posted: April 19, 2010 at 4:33 pm

International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) managed to beat earnings expectations, as most would have expected.  The company reported earnings at $1.97 EPS and $22.9 billion in revenues, which compared ...
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American Capital: Proof Paulson Still Sought After (ACAS, GS)

Posted: April 19, 2010 at 3:53 pm

American Capital, Ltd. (NASDAQ: ACAS) had a big trading day, despite the news being perhaps a bit muted due to Friday's SEC fraud charges filed against Goldman Sachs Group Inc. ...
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How Citigroup Saved Goldman Sachs

Posted: April 19, 2010 at 3:39 pm

In terms of financial performance of their respective firms, Vikram Pandit the CEO of Citigoup Inc (NYSE: C) has been a goat for the last two years and Lloyd Blankfein has been a hero. ...
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BioHealth Business Daily (ACUR, AMLN, BIIB, ELN, CADX, CYCC, HGSI, MIPI, PRAN, RNN, SQNM)

Posted: April 19, 2010 at 3:20 pm

Today's version of the BioHealth Business Daily has many stocks moving on news, but oddly many of the real news stocks are hardly moving and were eliminated from today's report.  ...
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Bank Failures Accelerate, FDIC Sweats

Posted: April 19, 2010 at 2:44 pm

Bank closings hit eight last week bringing the total to 48 for the year. The rate of the failures is greater than in the previous two years. FDIC chief Sheila ...
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Ecuador Threatens Expropriation of Private Oil Operations

Posted: April 19, 2010 at 12:22 pm

Ecuador is a relatively unknown member of OPEC, due mostly to its up and down relationship with the cartel. Ecuador first joined OPEC in 1973, then in 1992 suspended its ...
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Logistics & Transports: Recovery Winners and Losers (CSX, CHRW, EXPD, FDX, HTLD)

Posted: April 19, 2010 at 12:06 pm

Shipping, transportation, and logistics... all winners in the economic recovery.  An article titled "Can Logistics Stocks Carry the Load for Investors?" by Morningstar's Keith Schoonmaker notes some key winners and ...
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Iceland Volcano Vs. Alternative Energy and Global Warming (FSLR, PBW, PEIX)

Posted: April 19, 2010 at 11:32 am

The volcano in Iceland is still spewing ash into the air.  While many Americans have discussed investment banking scandals, the volcano situation in Iceland is affecting far more than many ...
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Why Lloyd Blankfein Of Goldman Sachs Keeps His Job

Posted: April 19, 2010 at 11:07 am

Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) is not going anywhere. The 56-year-old banker has run the firm since May 31, 2006. During that time, the bank's stock ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (C, GS, PALM, S, SSN)

Posted: April 19, 2010 at 9:11 am

These are this Monday's top day trader and active trader alerts.  We have links with more detail on the move, the relative data, and the news summaries to each story ...
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